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Originally Posted by davem
In other words, you can ask why there aren't loads of women running around Middle-earth whacking Orcs & chopping the extremities off Trolls, but you can't put them in there - not even in fanfic, because if there were such hordes of women doing that kind of thing at the end of the Third Age Tolkien would have mentioned it.
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I disagree. Tolkien's tale concerns only one part of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age. Who is to say that there was not a society of warrior women in the far south or the far east of Middle-earth who played no (or little) part in the events which he relays? While he provided much detail concerning Middle-earth, he surely did not tell us everything that there is to know about it.